Compressed Winter

"Radio National," a German station which pretends to broadcast from
within Britain, cooled the air waves last week with a tall story of a
new Nazi secret weapon, this time a projectile loaded with a chemical
which freezes everything within 500 yards by a temperature of 332°
below zero Fahrenheit. The effect modestly claimed for the gadget: "To
kill every living creature within range, and make steel and concrete
structures so brittle they collapse at a touch."

The broadcast added that recent trials of the weapon had mystified the
British by suddenly causing large icebergs to appear in the Channel.
British...